FROM THE OTHER SIDE: A COLUMN BY LEE LAWYER WITH STORIES ABOUT GEOPHYSICS AND GEOPHYSICISTS

摘要

J. Lamar Worzel passed away on 26 December 2008 at the age of 89. Many of us have never heard of him and yet hecontributed greatly to our understanding ofEarth processes.rnOne of Worzel's obituaries had this interesting quote from Dennis Hayes, an oceanographer who worked under Worzel and his very famous superior: "It was Worzel's longtime boss at Lamont-Doherty, William Maurice Ewing, whose seminal ideas drove early systematic mapping of the world's oceans in the 20th century. But it was Worzel's energy and ingenuity that brought many ventures to fruition."